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    <title>A Rose for Emily Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the A Rose for Emily Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[When people ask for the meaning of a story, they are oftentimes reallly...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rose-emily/q-and-a/rose-for-emily-what-does-story-mean-68589</link>
        <description><![CDATA[When people ask for the meaning of a story, they are oftentimes reallly looking for the theme of the story. The theme of the story is the universal message that the author wants you, the reader, to be able to take out of the story and apply to real life. In other words, this is the author's commentary on life and the human condition.  Theme is always expressed in a complete sentence, and stories, plays, novels, etc. oftentimes have more than...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA["A Rose for Emily" is a short story by American author William Faulkner...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["A Rose for Emily" is a short story by American author William Faulkner first published in the April 30, 1930 issue of Forum. This story takes place in Faulkner's fictional city, Jefferson, in his fictional county of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. It was Faulkner's first short story published in a national magazine.Faulkner’s "A Rose For Emily" is told from the viewpoint of the town of Jefferson, Mississippi, where the Grierson family...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:32:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The men respected Emily as an individual and felt that she was...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The men respected Emily as an individual and felt that she was significant in their life so they were willing to attend her furneral to pay their respects towards her. He was the most important person in the slow and dying out Old South]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 05:42:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" has as one of its themes the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" has as one of its themes the decline of the Old South with its gentility and unspoken code of chivalry against the New South and its increasing degeneration.  The change in the South is reflected first in the description of Emily's house:

It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies...set on what had once been our most select...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:14:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[capeta1,
In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," an unnamed narrator is a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[capeta1,
In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," an unnamed narrator is a townsman of Jefferson, Mississippi, who has for some years watched Emily Grierson with considerable interest but also respectful distance. He openly describes his perspective as average; he always uses we in the story, never I. His tone and manner are informed but detached, and surprisingly cool given the horrific conclusion. He mixes his own observations with town gossip to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:07:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "A Rose for Emily," how are changing worlds reflected?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rose-emily/q-and-a/rose-for-emily-changing-worlds-90171</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In "A Rose for Emily," how are changing worlds reflected?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:40:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[mollyclark,
The style of “A Rose for Emily” is unusually...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rose-emily/q-and-a/rose-for-emily-what-would-different-this-story-90119</link>
        <description><![CDATA[mollyclark,
The style of “A Rose for Emily” is unusually conventional for Faulkner. There are no elaborate periodic sentences or stream-of-consciousness narration. The simple and direct style reflects the particular speaker Faulkner chose to tell the story. The unnamed narrator is a townsman of Jefferson, Mississippi, who has for some years watched Emily Grierson with considerable interest but also respectful distance. He openly describes...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:16:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Among other remarks, the critic Frank A. Littler refers to Faulkner's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Among other remarks, the critic Frank A. Littler refers to Faulkner's story as "a meditation on time...an allegory of the relations between North and South."  So, without the narrators of "A Rose for Emily," much of this background on Emily would be missing.  It is this history of the Grierson's and their house provided by the narrators that provides the contrast between the Old South and the New South with Emily as a relic of that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:29:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "A Rose For Emily," what would be different if this story were told...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "A Rose For Emily," what would be different if this story were told from Emily’s point of view instead of the third person point of view?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:13:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The storyteller in "A Rose for Emily" is a townsperson who is using the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rose-emily/q-and-a/this-story-told-by-we-who-do-you-imagine-this-89809</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The storyteller in "A Rose for Emily" is a townsperson who is using the collective term "we" because the feelings being conveyed are reflective of the general sentiment of the town.  The story is dominated by a patriarchal society so I presume (as well as most other people, I suppose) that the narrator is male.  There is a reference made to the smell of old female flesh which leads me to conclude that this is an old male speaking.
He tells...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:35:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "A Rose for Emily" there are narrators from Emily's town who are...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "A Rose for Emily" there are narrators from Emily's town who are older since they are familiar with the past history of her family and the town.  In the introduction, for instance, the narrators remark that when Emily was alive

Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor....remitted her taxes....With the next generation,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:20:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This story is told by "we"; who do you imagine this narrator or...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This story is told by "we"; who do you imagine this narrator or narrators to be?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:16:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The previous answer identifies some excellent similarities between the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rose-emily/q-and-a/what-contrast-short-stories-jury-her-peers-by-89589</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The previous answer identifies some excellent similarities between the two stories, but here are several more differences.
The setting for the two is quite different.  "Jury" is set in Iowa which is not the South--it's the Midwest.  "Rose" is, of course, in the Deep South.  At first glance this might not seem significant, but one of Faulkner's major themes is the conflict between the traditional old South and the realism of more modern...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:28:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is a very interesting pairing.  On first glance, I see more...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rose-emily/q-and-a/what-contrast-short-stories-jury-her-peers-by-89589</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This is a very interesting pairing.  On first glance, I see more similarities than differences between these two stories:  both main characters are female, both women are "absent" in the story though they are the main focus (Minnie having been taken down to the jail, and Miss Emily having passed away), both women have killed someone (although, in Miss Emily's defense, we don't really know how Homer died), both women are southern women and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:35:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the contrasts on the short stories "A Jury of Her Peers" by...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the contrasts on the short stories "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell and "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:49:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are several themes in this story; identifying them first can help...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rose-emily/q-and-a/how-does-symbolism-work-develop-theme-rose-for-89493</link>
        <description><![CDATA[There are several themes in this story; identifying them first can help to lead you to various symbols in the the tale that help to build those themes.  One of the major themes in the story is the fall of the old south, or the uselessness of the old south's ways in the modern world. Emily and her father symbolize the old south, and how they are not relevant anymore.  Emily's obstinance in the face of having to pay taxes represents a clash...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:29:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[One good way to look at this is to think about the main conflicts that...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rose-emily/q-and-a/what-extent-do-characters-traits-lead-conflict-89491</link>
        <description><![CDATA[One good way to look at this is to think about the main conflicts that occur in the story.  There is the conflict of Emily not giving up her father's body, the conflict of the alluded to fact that Homer was "not the marrying kind," and so probably was going to leave Emily, and the conflict with the aldermen about the taxes and the smell.  So, if you look at each one of these conflicts you can tie them to a character's personality traits that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:16:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does symbolism work to develop theme in "A Rose for Emily" by...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does symbolism work to develop theme in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:58:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, to what extent do the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, to what extent do the character’s traits lead to conflict?
 ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:55:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is one of those questions that can be answered by a close reading...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rose-emily/q-and-a/beginning-part-ii-how-long-had-emilys-father-been-89373</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This is one of those questions that can be answered by a close reading of the text.  In "A Rose for Emily" however, it is rather confusing because William Faulkner does mix the timeline up. He jumps all over the time spectrum to tell the story, and it isn't until the very end of the story that we have the entire picture.  At the beginning of section two, it states,

"So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:15:06 PST</pubDate>
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